We were honored to recently be a part of a significant Twitter chat hosted by Mashable Lifestyle (@mashlifestyle) and writer Iris Mansour (@Irisist). We combed through hundreds of amazing tweets to give you a succinct taste of this great and widespread conversation. In fact there was so much amazing content we had to split it up into two blogs, so tune in tomorrow for Part 2!

Q1: @Irisist, while researching your story, what were some mind-blowing stats about cancer and millennials that you discovered?

In 30 years the level of children and older adults surviving cancer is up. But there’s been very little improvement in AYA. Then there’s the bankruptcy insanity, which we’ll get to later but basically uninsured YAs are twice as likely to develop late stage cancer and be bankrupted by care. – Iris Mansour @Irisist

Hasn’t been researched thoroughly enough but tests suggest it may have distinct bio and genetic features. Hence the need to test patients as their own sample, not lumped in with older adults and children – Iris Mansour @Irisist